| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Sir Thomas Overbury |
| | | Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers to make a fire next day. | 1 |
| He who has nothing to boast of but his ancestry is like a potato; the only good belonging to him is underground. | 2 |
| Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol which itself hath made. | 3 |
| The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like a potato,—the only good belonging to him is underground. | 4 |
| Wit is brushwood, judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the durablest heat; and both meeting make the best fire. | 5 | | |
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