Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.