Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.

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.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

Experience is a safe guide.