There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.

He who hid well, lived well.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners.