In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Whatever you can, count.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.