There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
By indignities men come to dignities.
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.