There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.