The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.