A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.
The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.