Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.