True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.
[On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or preserve roast Meat from too fierce a Fire; yet in that Shape I shall be useful to my Country.
Life is too short for a long story
People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.
Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.