I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.