Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.