But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.