| Quotes |
Topic |
| Blessings | Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New. |
| Body | A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. |
| Boldness | Boldness is a child of ignorance. |
| Boldness | Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. |
| Books | But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. |
| Books | Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. |
| Books | Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. |
| Books | Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested. |
| Business | Come home to men's business and bosoms. |
| Certainty | If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. |
| Change | He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. |
| Charity | The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can angel or man come in danger by it. |
| Children | The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. |
| Children | Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business. |
| Cleanliness | For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. |
| Science | As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. |
| Science | If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625. |
| Consistency | Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. |
| Court | The place of justice is a hallowed place. |
| Courtesy | If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. |
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