We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.