Whatever you can, count.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

States are great engines moving slowly.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.