Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

Think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.