He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.