Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.