Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

Whatever you can, count.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.