The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

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

I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives