The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

God loveth the clean.

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.