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.

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

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.