The motive power is the cause of all life.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.