False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.