If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.