A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.

Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.