No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.

Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.