I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.