A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

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.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.