Many Secrets Of Art And Nature Are

We Are Much Beholden To Machiavel And Others, That Write What Men Do, And Not What They Ought To Do.

Silence Is The Virtue Of Fools.

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

Men Fear Death As Children Fear To Go In The Dark; And As That Natural Fear In Children Is Increased By Tales, So Is The Other.

It Is The True Office Of History To Represent The Events Themselves, Together With The Counsels, And To Leave The Observations And Conclusions Thereupon To The Liberty And Faculty Of Every Man's Judgment