Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

Hell itself must yield to industry.