The worst men often give the best advice.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

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

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.