Let Us Not Be Ashamed To Speak

If These Essays Were Worthy Of Being Judged, It Might Fall Out, In My Opinion, That They Would Not Find Much Favour, Either With Common And Vulgar Minds, Or With Uncommon And Eminent Ones: The Former Would Not Find Enough In Them, The Latter Would Find Too Much; They Might Manage To Live Somewhere In The Middle Region.

Those Things That Are Dearest To Us Have Cost Us The Most.

Let [children] Be Able To Do All Things, And Love To Do Only The Good.

It Is A Rare Life That Remains Orderly Even In Private.

For Table-talk, I Prefer The Pleasant And Witty Before The Learned And The Grave; In Bed, Beauty Before Goodness.