The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
By indignities men come to dignities.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
