Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.