A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Great changes are easier than small ones.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.