The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.
Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.
Motion is created by the destruction of balance.
Vows begin when hope dies.
I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.