We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.