Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Every Country hath its Machiavel.

Think before you act; think twice before you speak.

Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.

Things evidently false are not only printed, but many things of truth most falsely set forth.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.