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.
Empiricism, scientific method
Essays, Civil and Moral: Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature
1625
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"The method of discovery and proof, whether by the senses or by the mind, is one and the same; and it is only by a right method of discovery that we can hope for a right method of proof."
Controversial"To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar."
Humorous"Age doth not rectify, but rather confirm and harden, good or bad."
Humorous"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
Controversial"The truth of a thing is in its being; the good of a thing is in its using."
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