"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

"Opportunity makes a thief."

"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

"There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little."

"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."

"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

"Science is but an image of the truth."

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

"It is impossible to love and to be wise."

"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing."

"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."

"It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about."

"But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on."

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."

"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience."

"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

"Acorns were good until bread was found."

"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

"Knowledge and human power are synonymous."

"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."

"People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors."

"The place of justice is a hallowed place."

"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."

"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."

"The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors."

"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."

"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

"The remedy is worse than the disease."

"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."