Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

Innovations, which are the births of time.

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

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.