Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God.

He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.

A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.