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.

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

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

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

A princely mind will undo a private family.

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