Silence is the virtue of fools.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

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.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.