There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.