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.

He who has nothing to boast of but his ancestry is like a potato; the only good belonging to him is underground.

Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol which itself hath made.

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

Wit is brushwood, judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the durablest heat; and both meeting make the best fire.