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 men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.