Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.
If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.
Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.