Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.