Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
Wonder is the seed of knowledge
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.