There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

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

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.