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

"The place of justice is a hallowed place."

"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."

"Time is the author of authors."

"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."

"Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth."

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

"Money is a great servant but a bad master."

"I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or for fame, or power, or any of these inferior things, but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity. For it was from lust of power that the Angels fell, from lust of knowledge that man fell, but of charity there can be no excess, neither did angel or man come in danger by it."

"The remedy is worse than the disease."

"He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief."

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

"The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before."

"Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature."

"Despise no new accident in your body, but ask opinion of it. There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's observation, what he finds good and of what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health."

"Friends are thieves of time."

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

"The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue."

"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

"The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue."

"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

"A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner."

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."

"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."

"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."

"Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory."

"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

"Man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them."

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."

"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."

"It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self."

"Knowledge itself is power."

"God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

"For knowledge too is itself a power."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

"All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness."

"Nothing is terrible except fear itself."

"Time is the greatest innovator."

"Discretion in speech is more than eloquence."

"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."