Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?