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

Constancy is the foundation of virtue.

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.

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.