The surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.