The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

States, as great engines, move slowly.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.