Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.