“To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.”

Books must follow sciences and not sciences books.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

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

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

By far the best proof is experience.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.