It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

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.