Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.