A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

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