Innovations, which are the births of time.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.