Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.