They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

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.

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.