The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.

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

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.

A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.