They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
God’s first creature, which was light.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Art is man added to Nature.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.