He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.