Robert Burton

As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.

Machiavel says virtue and riches seldom settle on one man.

Make a virtue of necessity.

The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.

I may not here omit those two main plagues and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people; they go commonly together.

Women wear the breeches.

From this it is clear how much the pen is worse than the sword (Hinc quam sit calamus sævior ense patet.)

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, - some of them in hell.