Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Knowledge is power.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
