Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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.
God's first creature, which was light.
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.
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
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.
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Friends are thieves of time.
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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