The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Silence is the virtue of fools.