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

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

Time is the author of authors.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.