The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.