When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Women are books, and men the readers be.