...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know
Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.