Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
God loveth the clean.
Always let losers have their words.
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.
It’s not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.