As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.