The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.