Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

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.

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.