Joseph Hall

I first adventure: follow me who list, And be the second Eastern Melodist

How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.

He is wealthy enough, that wanteth not: he is great enough, that is his own master: he is happy enough, that lives to die well.

Perfection is the child of time…

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

'Mongst all these stirs of discontented strife, O, let me lead an academic life; To know much, and to think for nothing, know Nothing to have, yet think we have enow.

So little in his purse, so much upon his back.

A legal thief, a bloodless murderer, A fiend incarnate, a false usurer.