Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

Whatever you can, count.

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.