Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.