The only certainty is uncertainty

Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.