A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.