I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Opportunity makes a thief.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Friends are thieves of time.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
