Acorns were good until bread was found.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.