Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.