"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel or man come in danger by it."

"The froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation."

"The greatest wisdom is to know oneself."

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

"It is a thing that ever holds, that a man is never so much an atheist as when he is most superstitious."