Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."