Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

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.

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.