A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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