Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.