Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

[Necessity is] the sum of all things, which being now existent, conduce and concur to the production of that action hereafter, whereof if any one thing now were wanting, the effect could not be produced. This concourse of causes, whereof every one is determined to be such as it is by a like concourse of former causes, may well be called (in respect they were all set and ordered by the eternal causes of all things, God Almighty) the decree of God.

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

If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.