"For the mind is not a tabula rasa upon which impressions are made, but rather a wax tablet upon which impressions are made, and which retains them for a time."

"Friendship is a medicine for all misfortunes."

"The Idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words, …"

"Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."