God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

By indignities men come to dignities.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

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

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.