The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.

Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.