Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.