Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.