If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.

Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

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

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.