We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.