Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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

The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

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.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.