 They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. |
| He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. |
| Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. |
| Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. |
| Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. |
| Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. |
| God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. |
| The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. |
| If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. |
| A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. |
| 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. |
| He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. |
| The remedy is worse than the disease. |
| For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. |
| Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. |
| Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. |
| A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. |
| God's first creature, which was light. |
| He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. |
| The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. |
