There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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

Truth is a naked and open daylight

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.