Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.

We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.