We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.