“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”
Life“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
Beauty“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”
Life“But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.”
God“Acorns were good until bread was found.”
Good“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
Nature“People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.”
Learning“By indignities men come to dignities.”
Men“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.”
Death“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
Nature“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.”
Business“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
Age“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
Knowledge“Friends are thieves of time.”
Time“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”
Men“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.”
Education“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
Truth“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
Love“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.”
Experience“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”
Science“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.”
Fear“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
Imagination