the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.