Great Throughts Treasury

"Every extremitie is a vice."

"He that hurts another hurts himself."

"Patience is the best medicine."

"Al that glistreth is not gold."

"He is a valiaunt victor, a famous Conquerour, and a mighty prince, that can vanquishe himselfe."

"Musick is said to be the rejoysing of the hart: musicke comforteth the mynde, and feareth the enimie."

"Night is the mother of thoughts."

"Offices are given, but not discretion."

"One man is worth a hundred & a hundred is not worth one."

"The end makes all men equal."

"The ware is not his that gathers it, but his that enjoyes it."

"The wisdom of a foole is in his tongue, & the tongue of the wise man is hydden in his hart."

"What thing is more difficult? A man to know hym self."

"Which is the freest thing that is? I beleeue thought."

"Wisdom sails with wind and time. "

"Who has not served cannot command."