Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.