Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.