Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.