God loveth the clean.

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

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.