Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Opportunity makes a thief.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.