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.

The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.