We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.