They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.