The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

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

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.