Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.