"The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain."

"For the sense by itself is a thing infirm and erring."

"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."

"It is a thing that ever accompanies great parts, that those that have them are not soon satisfied."

"The Idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words, …"