Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

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.

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.