"Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight."

"For a man's private fortune it is good to have an eye to his own affairs; for a commonwealth, to have an eye to its neighbours."

"Silence is the virtue of fools."

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

"The froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation."