It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

By indignities men come to dignities.

That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted