There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

God's first creature, which was light.

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.