The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

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.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.