The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Art is man added to Nature.

A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.