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

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

All colours will agree in the dark.

The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

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

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.