Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
A great leap in the dark
For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.