In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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.