There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

Bread is the staff of life.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.