 Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. |
| Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. |
| 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. |
| Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. |
| The place of justice is a hallowed place. |
| Knowledge and human power are synonymous. |
| Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. |
| Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. |
| Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. |
| Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. Topics: Children |
| If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. |
| The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. |
| A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. |
| Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. |
| Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. Topics: Friendship |
| There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. |
| Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. |
| Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. |
| Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. |
| We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. |
