 Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. |
| Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. |
| Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. |
| Knowledge is power. |
| Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. |
| This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. |
| The worst men often give the best advice. |
| Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. |
| Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. |
| I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. |
| The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. |
| Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. |
| The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. |
| Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. |
| It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. |
| Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. |
| A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. |
| There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. |
| Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. |
| The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. |
