It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply.

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.