In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

Thinking nurseth thinking.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.