Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Death cannot kill that which does not die.