I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

I feign no hypotheses.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.