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

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

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

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

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.