And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.