To take advice of some few friends is ever honourable; for lookers-on many times see more than gamesters.
Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that which he doth not.
Sir John Harington, chiefly remembered for his translation of Orlando Furioso, wrote clever humorous verse.
OF A PRECISE TAILOR
A tailor, thought a man of upright dealing—
True, but for lying, honest, but for stealing—