A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.