Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

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.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.