What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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

Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.