Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.