We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

Whatever you can, count.

Friends are thieves of time.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.