Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

Science is but an image of the truth.