Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.