People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

All colours will agree in the dark.

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.