Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.