The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

It needs courage to be afraid.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.