Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Character is revealed through action.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

Perception starts with the eye.

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.