It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Truth is a naked and open daylight

Always let losers have their words.

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.