Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.

Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.