No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

A carpenter is known by his chips.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.