Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.