Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

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

Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.