Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.