The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world.

Lucid intervals and happy pauses.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set a house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

Be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, ‘The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, what a dust do I raise.’

All colours will agree in the dark.