Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.