For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.