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

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

In charity there is no excess.

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.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.