A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

All colours will agree in the dark.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.