Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Great is the advantage of patience.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.