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

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.

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

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

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.

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.