The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Science is but an image of the truth.