Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.

He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals).

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.