Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we'll enjoy to-night..

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom..

Blueness doth express trueness..

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you..

The burnt child dreads the fire..

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing..

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to b….

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I..

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do..

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words..

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure..

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, an….

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master..

Prevent your day at morning..

Freedom doth with degree dispense..

I do honor the very flea of his dog..

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much..

Fortune, that favors fools..

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome..