Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.