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.

Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.

An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.