There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.