Time is the greatest innovator.

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.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

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

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.