Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.