Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

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.

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.

It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.

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.