Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands