Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.