Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.