“by indignities men come to dignities”

“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.”

“But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.”

“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”

“To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.”

“The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.”

“Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other”