When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.