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

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

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

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

A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

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

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.