Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Things may serve long, but not serve ever.

When most I wink, then do my eyes best see

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.