In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

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

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

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

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.