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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

Boldness is a child of ignorance.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

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.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

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.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

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.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.