The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

All will come out in the washing.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.