Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.

Where there is no common power, there is no law

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.