Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
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.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
