All bravery stands upon comparisons.

No receipt [recipe] openeth the heart, but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it.

Time is the measure of business.

No man is angry that feels not himself hurt.

The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

It is the worst solitude, to have no true friendships.

All good moral philosophy is but a handmaid to religion.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.