Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Let us see what love can do.

But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.