Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.