For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know