They're only truly great who are truly good.
George Chapman
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
Who to himself is law, no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed.
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.
