Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The worst men often give the best advice.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

By indignities men come to dignities.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.