Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Old friends are best.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.