Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.