Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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