All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

God ever geometrizes.

It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.