Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The things that really are in the world without us, are those motions by which these seemings are caused. And this is the great deception of sense, which also is by sense to be corrected. For as sense telleth me, when I see directly, that the colour seemeth to be in the object; so also sense telleth me, when I see by reflection, that colour is not in the object.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.