Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

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

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.