In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And 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.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.