Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.