Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.