For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.