Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.