The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Science is but an image of the truth.

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.