None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
God loveth the clean.
Always let losers have their words.
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
It’s not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God’s word or the book of God’s works.
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing’d reapers come.
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
By indignities men come to dignities.
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men’s manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.