Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.