Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.