Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.