Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.