Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.