"He that studieth revenge, keepeth his own wounds green; which otherwise would heal, and do well."

"The greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curio…"

"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 …"

"Friendship is a medicine for all misfortunes."

"A great kingdom is not to be made good by the multitude of people, but by the greatness of them that are in it."