Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.

There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.