Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.