Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Always let losers have their words.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.