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.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

All will come out in the washing.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.