Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
Man is a social animal.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.