“We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.”

“Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues”

“A body in motion can maintain this motion only if it remains in contact with a mover.”

“For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.”

“Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.”

“If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.”

“Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.”

“When law can do no right,Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.”