There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.Montesquieu
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.Francis Bacon
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.Francis Bacon
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.Francis Bacon
