Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Knowledge is power.

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.