All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.
Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.