The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.