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.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

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

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.