Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.