Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.