Innovations, which are the births of time.
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.
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