Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve

Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Every occasion will catch the senses of the vain man and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him

With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.