The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.