Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .