A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
Whatever you can, count.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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.
Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.