Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.

Hope is a working-man's dream.

In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.