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

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.