Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Constancy is the foundation of virtue.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and regularity in things than it really finds.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.