A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages