There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.