It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

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

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.