Reading maketh a full man.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.