Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.