If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.