I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.