Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.