The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

By far the best proof is experience.

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly