Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding.
Innovations, which are the births of time.
The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.