Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

This communicating of a mans self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Men in great places are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

Time is the greatest innovator.

A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than the torture of laws.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.