The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.