37 Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. Proposition touching Amendment of Laws. 39 Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken.
Rich soils are often to be weeded.
Letter of Expostulation to Coke. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves. 14 Advancement of Learning. For the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. Advancement of Learning.