I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.