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

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

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

A princely mind will undo a private family.

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

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

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.