To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.

If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.

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

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

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.