Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.