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

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

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

A princely mind will undo a private family.

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.