Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.