I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.