You can't be more horrific than life itself.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.