The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.