Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.