Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

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

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.