By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'