"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience"
"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread"
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other"
"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other"
"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral"
