None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.