The Knowledge that is got without Pains, is kept without Pleasure.
The Struggling for Knowledge hath a Pleasure in it like that of Wrestling with a fine Woman.
Extremes.
Extremity is always ill, that which is good cannot live a Moment with it.
Any body that is Fool enough will be safe in the World, and any body that can be Knave enough will be rich in it.
The generality of the World falleth into an insufficient Mean that exposeth them more than an Extreme on either Side.
Faculties of the Mind.
Though Memory and Invention are not upon good Terms, yet when the first is loaded, the other is stifled.
The Memory hath Claws by which it holdeth fast; but it hath no Wings, like the Invention, to enable it to fly.
Some Mens Memory is like a Box, where a Man should mingle his Jewels with his old Shoes.