"Much matter decocted into few words."

"The lion is not so fierce as painted."

"Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat."

"The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders."

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

"A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial."

"Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room."

"Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness…"

"He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret…"

"Thus, as it is always darkest just before the day dawneth, so God useth to visit His servants with greatest afflictio…"