"Aurrera begiratzen ez duena, atzean dago."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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 …"