O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.