"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."

"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

"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"."

"But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself."

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes."

"Science is but an image of the truth."

"I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?"

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

"Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love."

"It is impossible to love and to be wise."

"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

"Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend."

"There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth."

"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing."

"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."

"This world's a bubble."

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."

"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."

"It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about."

"The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude."

"But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on."

"Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed."

"To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together."

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks."

"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."

"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience."

"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

"I would live to study not study to live."

"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."

"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."

"Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."

"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."

"Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation."

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."

"Acorns were good until bread was found."

"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

"Knowledge and human power are synonymous."

"If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics."

"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

"Fortune makes him fool whom she makes her darling."

"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

"Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us."

"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."