Great Throughts Treasury

"Justice without mercie were extreme iniurie."

"Mistrust no man without cause, neither be ye credulous without proofe."

"Age alway ough to be a myrrour for youth, for where olde age is impudent, there certainly youth must needes be shamlesse."

"Excellent alwayes are the gifts which are made aceptable by the vertue of ye giuer."

"Nature hath giuen no man a country, no more than she hath a house or lands... and the same Moone shined, whereby he noted that euery place was a country to a wise man, and al parts a pallace to a quiet mind."

"He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose."

"If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young."

"The true measure of life is not length, but honesty."

"Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame."

"The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted."

"The tongue, the ambassador of the heart."