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

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

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

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

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

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

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.