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.
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.