Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Some promises and time disappoint us

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

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.