Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.