"The opinion of plenty is among the principal causes of want."

"The Idols of the Theatre are not innate, nor do they steal into the understanding from the secret channels of the mind, but are plainly impressed and received from the various dogmas of philosophies, …"

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

"The less people think, the more they talk."

"For the mind of man is strangely disposed to give credit to such things as it doth wish were true."