Society and the World

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set a house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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.

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

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.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

3 or 4 families in a country village is the very thing to work on.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands.