Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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

I knew one that when he wrote a letter he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a bymatter.

Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

He said it that knew it best.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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