One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.