He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Always let losers have their words.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.