 Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. |
| Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise. |
| Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched. |
| That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects. |
| When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire. |
| A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard. |
| Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. |
| In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. |
| We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them. |
| For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. |
| Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. |
| All things do help the unhappy man to fall. |
| Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing. |
| When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons. |
| Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin. |
| 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise. |
| Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end. |
| Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. |
| Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop. |
