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

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

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.