When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.