Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Innovations, which are the births of time.

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.