Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.

And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.

Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

For I can raise no money by vile means.