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A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean and splendid exist alike.

put that which was most material in the postscript.