A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.