Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.

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

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.