It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

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.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.