“Strict punctuality is a cheap virtue.”

“We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.”

“Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.”

“Display is as false as it is costly.”

“Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.”

“If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.”

“O momentary grace of mortal men,Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!”

“We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.”

“What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.”

“The soul of this man is his clothes.”

“Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.”

“The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.”

“We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.”

“How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!”

“Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.”

“Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings”

“If thou wilt lend this money, lend it notAs to thy friends; for when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend?”

“Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.”

“Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .”

“As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.”