If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

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