Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.
Empiricism, scientific method
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"It is a sad fate to be a man of sense, in a country of fools."
Shocking"For in the mind of man, there is a natural evil, a natural darkness, which, unless it be purged and illuminated, will ever be prone to error."
Controversial"He that hath no children, may be a said to be a kind of dead man."
Strange & Unusual"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
Strange & Unusual"For the sense is a thing infirm and erring, and the mind is a thing variable and full of perturbation, and governed as it were by chance."
Controversial