Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Naked Truth needs no shift.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

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.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.