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

Time is the author of authors.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.