Wonder Is The Seed Of Knowledge

But By Far The Greatest Hindrance And Aberration Of The Human Understanding Proceeds From The Dullness, Incompetency, And Deceptions Of The Senses; In That Things Which Strike The Sense Outweigh Things Which Do Not Immediately Strike It, Though They Be More Important. Hence It Is That Speculation Commonly Ceases Where Sight Ceases; Insomuch That Of Things Invisible There Is Little Or No Observation.

If A Man's Wit Be Not Apt To Distinguish Or Find Differences, Let Him Study The Schoolmen; For They Are Cymini Sectores, Splitters Of Hairs.

The Virtue Of Prosperity Is Temperance; The Virtue Of Adversity Is Fortitude.

He That Plots To Be The Only Figure Among Ciphers [zeros], Is The Decay Of The Whole Age.

A Man Must Make His Opportunity, As Oft As Find It.