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

"Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, old authors to read."

"Men ought to know that in the theatre of human life it is only for Gods and angels to be spectators."

"I like a plantation in a pure soil; that is, where people are not displanted to the end to plant in others; for else it is rather an extirpation than a plantation."

"The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the body; it sees all things else, but cannot see itself."