He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.