Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

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

He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know