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

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

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.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.