Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.