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| Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. | | Uncategorized | |
| Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. | | Uncategorized | |
| Study After Velasquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, | | Uncategorized | |
| Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils. | | Uncategorized | |
| Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come in danger by it. | | Uncategorized | |
| The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. | | Uncategorized | |
| The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. | | Uncategorized | |
| The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. | | Uncategorized | |
| The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. | | Uncategorized | |
| The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. | | Uncategorized | |
| The poets did well to conjoin Music And Medicine in Apollo: because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious harp of man's body and to reduce it to harmony. | | Uncategorized | |
| The surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. | | Uncategorized | |
| The world's a bubble; and the life of man,/ Less than a span. | | Uncategorized | |
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| There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play well. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. | | Uncategorized | |
| Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. | | Uncategorized | |
