Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

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

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.