Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.