Thomas Overbury

“The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato — the only good belonging to him is underground.”

“All the carnal beauty of my wife, Is but skin-deep.”

“In a wife I would desire, what in myself I want.”

“Beauty is a silent cheat.”

“Of all the witchcrafts, love is the greatest.”

“Books are a part of man's prerogative, In formal ink they thoughts and voices hold.”

“He comes too near that comes to be denied.”

“A Puritan is a Protestant frayed out of his wits.”

“Good is the body, where the mind is good.”

“The plodding man goes surely to his grave, but he will be a long time a-getting there.”

“There is no fool to the old fool.”