The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.