The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.