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.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.