It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.

The man without a navel still lives in me.

God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed.