Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.