But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.