Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.