If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.