Knowledge itself is power
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
A man dies as often as he loses his friends.
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth n...
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Science is but an image of the truth.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.
Riches are for spending.
It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.
I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority...
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.