This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.