Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
All bravery stands upon comparisons.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
As is the garden such is the gardener. A man’s nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
Reading maketh a full man.
The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
In charity there is no excess.
Without friends the world is but a wilderness.