The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.