“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“Solomon saith, 'He that considereth the wind, shall not sow, and he that looketh to the clouds, shall not reap.' A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”

“A Man must make his opportunity,as oft as find it ”

“The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.”

“There was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself, as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, That it is impossible to love, and to be wise.”

“It is impossible to love and be wise.”

“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”