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

Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.