Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.