“If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world.”

“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”

“Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure”

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”