Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.