Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Art is man added to Nature.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.