Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.