Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

A flatterer is the shadow of a fool.

Things were first made, then words.

An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.