I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

He is the fountain of honour.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Ancient times were the youth of the world.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.

Words are the tokens current and accepted for conceits, as moneys are for values.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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