A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

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

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

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.

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.