Boldness Is A Child Of Ignorance

A Sudden Bold And Unexpected Question Doth Many Times Surprise A Man And Lay Him Open.

The Human Understanding Is Moved By Those Things Most Which Strike And Enter The Mind Simultaneously And Suddenly, And So Fill The Imagination; And Then It Feigns And Supposes All Other Things To Be Somehow, Though It Cannot See How, Similar To Those Few Things By Which It Is Surrounded.

The Bee Enclosed And Through The Amber Shown Seems Buried In The Juice Which Was His Own.

The Inclination To Goodness Is Imprinted Deeply In The Nature Of Man.

The Human Understanding Is Of Its Own Nature Prone To Suppose The Existence Of More Order And Regularity In The World Than It Finds. And Though There Be Many Things In Nature Which Are Singular And Unmatched, Yet It Devises For Them Parallels And Conjugates And Relatives Which Do Not Exist. Hence The Fiction That All Celestial Bodies Move In Perfect Circles, Spirals And Dragons Being (except In Name) Utterly Rejected.