If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.