He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.