I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.