Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.
The wisdom of the ancients.
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.
Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.
The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls. In fact Jesus was constantly making pictures of God in people’s life by looking at their souls and exposing them to his light.
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: ‘Be angry, but sin not.’ ‘Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.’
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
The world’s a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.
Time is the greatest innovator.