A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy.