Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

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

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.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

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