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

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

"Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, old authors to read."

"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…"

"It is a thing that ever proveth, that a man's fortune is the fruit of his own virtue."