I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

The man without a navel still lives in me.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

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

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.