For knowledge, too, is itself power.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.