Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

Old friends are best.

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.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.