Men in great places are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another’s.

It is as natural to die as to be born.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man’s life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.