"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

"Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight."

"For there is no bond of society but in knowledge."

"The mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of supe…"

"The greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curio…"