The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

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

In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

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