Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.

How many would die did not hope sustain them.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.

In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.