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

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.