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

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

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.

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

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.