“Necessity is the mistress and guardian of Nature.”

Northern Memoirs, written in 1658 and published in 1694 along with another work by Franck, The Contemplative and Practical Angler

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

In Korea with Marquis Ito (1908), page 292

Of those whom God is slow to punish
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)
Context: Things... are some of them continuous... which are properly and peculiarly called 'magnitudes'; others are discontinuous, in a side-by-side arrangement, and, as it were, in heaps, which are called 'multitudes,' a flock, for instance, a people, a heap, a chorus, and the like.
Wisdom, then, must be considered to be the knowledge of these two forms. Since, however, all multitude and magnitude are by their own nature of necessity infinite—for multitude starts from a definite root and never ceases increasing; and magnitude, when division beginning with a limited whole is carried on, cannot bring the dividing process to an end... and since sciences are always sciences of limited things, and never of infinites, it is accordingly evident that a science dealing with magnitude... or with multitude... could never be formulated.... A science, however, would arise to deal with something separated from each of them, with quantity, set off from multitude, and size, set off from magnitude.<!--pp.183-184

Benedetto Croce, The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico. trans. R. G. Collingwood, London 1923.

Source: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), pp. 102-103

White House Honors For Frank Deford, Joan Didion & Others, 2013-07-10, 2013-07-10, Morning Edition, National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/10/200735930/white-house-honors-for-frank-deford-joan-didion-others,