Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.