The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.