If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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

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.

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.