The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.