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.

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

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.

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.