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

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.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

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.

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

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