The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

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

Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

Science is but an image of the truth.