"He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune."

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."

"All colors will agree in the dark."

"The Idols of the Theatre are not innate, nor do they steal into the understanding from the secret channels of the mind, but are plainly impressed and received from the various dogmas of philosophies, …"

"The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self."