The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Realize that everything connects to everything else.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.
A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.
There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words....
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.