If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

You should never think without an image.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.