Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.