There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

God loveth the clean.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

Whatever you can, count.

Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.