Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.