The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

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.