Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.