Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

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

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.