To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.