When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.