“Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.”
“Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.”
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.”
“Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.”
“The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.”
“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
“We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.”