"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."

"A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time."

"It is a thing that ever proveth, that a man's fortune is the fruit of his own virtue."

"For a man's private fortune it is good to have an eye to his own affairs; for a commonwealth, to have an eye to its neighbours."

"The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain."