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

Where there is no common power, there is no law

And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.

There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.