Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Science is but an image of the truth.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

The worst men often give the best advice.