The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.