If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
God's first creature, which was light.
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
In all superstition wise men follow fools.
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.
The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.
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