Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.