Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.