... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse. When a man thinketh on anything whatsoever, his next thought after is not altogether so casual as it seems to be. Not every thought to every thought succeeds indifferently.

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.

Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.

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

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