Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

"If Atomes are as small, as small can bee, They must in quantity of Matter all agree."

"The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, and quick apprehension, could not understand; but the more she endeavoured to learn, the more was she confounded"

"Riches is not what we have, but what we enjoy."