We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.