God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.