Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.