A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.