All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.