Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.