Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

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

Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.