Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.