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

The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.

I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.

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