He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.