Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.

Of great riches there is no real use, except in the distribution; the rest is but conceit

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Certainly it is a heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind to move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.