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Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
They're only truly great who are truly good.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
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