The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

Science is but an image of the truth.

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.