» He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
» They that know no evil will suspect none.
» Blueness doth express trueness.
» All concord's born of contraries.
» He threatens many that hath injured one.
» True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
» When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
» 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.
» 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
» If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick