"The only way to conquer nature is to obey her."

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

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

"For the mind of man is strangely disposed to give credit to such things as it doth wish were true."

"There is in human nature generally, more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties, by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken, are most potent."