Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Time is the author of authors.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
I would live to study not study to live.
The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Friends are thieves of time.