A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Truth is a naked and open daylight

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.