A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.