"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge."

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

"Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use."

"The folly of one man is the fortune of another."

"The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other."

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto."

"A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time."

"The worst men often give the best advice."

"Nature to be commanded must be obeyed."

"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."

"By indignities men come to dignities."