The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

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.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.