"Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee."

"He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

"This is the very womb and bed of enormity."

"Fortune, that favors fools."

"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things."

"If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick."

"Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised."

"They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom."

"Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times."

"Weigh the meaning and look not at the words."

"Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco."

"In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be."

"A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house."

"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine."

"They that know no evil will suspect none."

"O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!"

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."

"Art hath an enemy called Ignorance."

"He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity."

"Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times."

"Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need."

"Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue."

"To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."

"'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end."

"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."

"Talking is the disease of age."

"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."

"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not."