Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

I quote others in order to better express myself.