None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.