The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients considered to be a living soul in the sky, in the globes and in the stars, in the sun and in the moon.

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.