Thrift is a great revenue.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.