Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.