There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.