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

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.