It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

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.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.