Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.