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

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

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

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.