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

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.