Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

He who fears dangers will not perish by them.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.