Great Boldness Is Seldom Without Some Absurdity.

Friendship Increases In Visiting Friends, But In Visiting Them Seldom.

When I Paint I Am Ageless, I Just Have The Pleasure Or The Difficulty Of Painting.

[science Is] The Labor And Handicraft Of The Mind.

The End Of Our Foundation Is The Knowledge Of Causes; And Secret Motions Of Things; And The Enlarging Of The Bounds Of Human Empire, To The Effecting Of All Things Possible.

It Cannot Be That Axioms Established By Argumentation Should Avail For The Discovery Of New Works, Since The Subtlety Of Nature Is Greater Many Times Over Than The Subtlety Of Argument. But Axioms Duly And Orderly Formed From Particulars Easily Discover The Way To New Particulars, And Thus Render Sciences Active.