If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.