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

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

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.

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

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

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

The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret.