Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
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Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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Penny wise, pound foolish.
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I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.
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A mere scholar, a mere ass.
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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
(Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior Ense Patet)
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England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
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Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
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They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
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The devil is the author of confusion.
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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
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A good conscience is a continual feast.
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