When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation

Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner

I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate