Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.