It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

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 have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.