Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

Science is but an image of the truth.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.