But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.