The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.