Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.