Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

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

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Knowledge is power.--Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.

When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded. Letter of Expostulation to Coke.

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