56 quotes
No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest.
Advice to the Earl of Rutland on his Travels (1596)
A wise man ought not to desire to inhabit that country where men have more authority than laws.
The Cabinet Council (1658)
Silence in love bewrays more woe
Than words, though ne’er so witty:
A beggar that is dumb, you know,
May challenge double pity.
Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (1632)
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory and good fortune.
The Cabinet Council (1658)
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
The History of the World (1614)
No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.
Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (1632)
Shall I, like an hermit, dwell
On a rock or in a cell?
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation.
The Cabinet Council (1658)
Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (1632)
Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.
Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest.
The Cabinet Council (1658)
Cowards may fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
If she undervalue me,
What care I how fair she be?
Our passions are most like to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.