One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.