Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

You are no better than you should be.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.