For knowledge, too, is itself power.

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.