"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."

"A man's nature, runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other."

"In studies, whatsoever a man learneth, he must learn it as if he were to teach it."

"The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man. For everyone (besides the errors common to human nature in general) has a cave or den of his own, which refracts and discolors the light of n…"

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