I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

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