"The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain."

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

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

"The mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of supe…"

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."