I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.