I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.