Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.