If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.