"Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be wi…"

"The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude."

"Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do …"

"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."