Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.