There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.