Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

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.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.