The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.
They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
The worst men often give the best advice.
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.
To know truly is to know by causes.
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
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