Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.