All colours will agree in the dark.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

By indignities men come to dignities.