the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.