"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."

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

"To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar."

"It is a thing that ever accompanies great parts, that those that have them are not soon satisfied."

"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence."