I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.