Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

You can't be more horrific than life itself.