Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.