Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness; the last without the first begets prodigality.

Haste makes work which caution prevents.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

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

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

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.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.