For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.