God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.