It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.