In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
Opportunity makes a thief.
The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.
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.