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.

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.

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.

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.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees.