For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.