He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

Constancy is the foundation of virtue.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and regularity in things than it really finds.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.