"The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs."

"Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusio…"

"Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes."

"I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be…"

"Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say. "Stay a while, that we may make an …"

"Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home."

"It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety…"

"Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were lit…"

"It is true that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when th…"

"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."