Innovations, which are the births of time.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.