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."

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know