If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

The lame (as they say) in the path outstrip the swift who wander from it, and it is clear that the very skill and swiftness of him who runs not in the right direction must increase his aberration.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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 nor man come in danger by it.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.