The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
What we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it, but being lack’d and lost, why, then we rack the value, then we find the virtue that possession would not show us whiles it was ours.
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will; much more a man, who hath any honesty in him.
There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is, and steal out of your company.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
Patch grief with proverbs; make misfortune drunk with candle-wasters; bring him yet to me, and I of him will gather patience.
Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
I see; and see, that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.