"It were better to be a dog and bay the moon, than such a Roman."

"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."

"He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune."

"Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be wi…"

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."