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.
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.