It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.
There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends but he joyeth the more and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends but he grieveth the less.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
A man dies as often as he loses his friends.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Riches are for spending.
Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.