I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

God's first creature, which was light.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Friends are thieves of time.