As for those wingy mysteries in divinity, and airy subtleties in religion, which have unhinged the brains of better heads, they never stretched the pia mater of mine; methinks there be not impossibilities enough in Religion for an active faith.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.