If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.

If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...