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

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.

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.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

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.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.