Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

It is natural to die as to be born.