...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.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

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

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.