But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.
Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.
Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.