It is natural to die as to be born.

It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.