Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

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

In charity there is no excess.