"The more you know, the less you need."

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

"For the mind, when it is once possessed with an opinion, draws all things else to confirm and agree with it."

"It is a miserable thing to have a man's destiny depend upon the breath of another man."

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."