Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.