What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Revenge...is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.