» Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
» Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
» Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
» A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
» Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
» Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
» Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
» Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
» He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
» He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.