What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

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

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.