Friends are thieves of time.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.