Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

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.