Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

Art is man added to Nature.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.