The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.