To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
They that know no evil will suspect none.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Fortune, that favors fools.
And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
Talking is the disease of age.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
This is the very womb and bed of enormity.
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
I do honour the very flea of his dog.
