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.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.