It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

States, as great engines, move slowly.

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.