Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

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

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

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.

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

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