A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".
By indignities men come to dignities.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.