The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
The folly of one man is the fortune of another.
Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling.
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.
For knowledge too is itself a power.
I take all knowledge to be my province.
This world's a bubble.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.
There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
Reading maketh a full man.
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.