Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".
Knowledge is power.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Time is the greatest innovator.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Wonder is the seed of knowledge
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.
Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.