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

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

Bread is the staff of life.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

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.