"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."

"For there is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

"I have taken all knowledge to be my province."

"He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."

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