"To be ignorant of causes is to be frustrated in action."

"For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and unruffled mirror, but is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not with judgment and industry regulated…"

"The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self."

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them."

"A great kingdom is not to be made good by the multitude of people, but by the greatness of them that are in it."