If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.
Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.
Philosophy is for the few.
O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!