Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.