The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.

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

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

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.