There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.