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.

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

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

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

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

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.

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.