There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. |
There is superstition in avoiding superstitions |
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. |
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. |
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. |
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. |
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. |
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. |
What then remains, but that we still should cry,/ Not to be born, or being born, to die? |
When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter |
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,/ But limns the water, or but writes in dust. |
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. |
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. |