Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.