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

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

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

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

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.