Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

[T]hro’ this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Nature quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? Vast Chain of Being! which from God began, Ethereal Essence, Spirit, Substance, Man, Beast, Bird, Fish, Insect! what no Eye can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee! From Thee to Nothing.... From Nature’s Chain whatever Link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... All are but parts of one stupendous Whole: Whose Body Nature is, and God the Soul.