His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!