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

By indignities men come to dignities.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

...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.

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.