Truth Is So Hard To Tell, It

Nor Do Apophthegms Only Serve For Ornament And Delight, But Also For Action And Civil Use, As Being The Edge-tools Of Speech Which Cut And Penetrate The Knots Of Business And Affairs: For Occasions Have Their Revolutions, And What Has Once Been Advantageously Used May Be So Again, Either As An Old Thing Or A New One.

States Are Great Engines Moving Slowly.

The Eye Of Understanding Is Like The Eye Of The Sense; For As You May See Great Objects Through Small Crannies Or Levels, So You May See Great Axioms Of Nature Through Small And Contemptible Instances.

The Virtue Of Prosperity Is Temperance; The Virtue Of Adversity Is Fortitude.

In Taking Revenge, A Man Is But Even With His Enemy; But In Passing It Over, He Is Superior.