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.

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.