Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.