Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Science is but an image of the truth.

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.