"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

"To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar."

"Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do …"

"For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man."

"Men ought to know that in the theatre of human life it is only for Gods and angels to be spectators."