Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.