...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Of two evils choose the least.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Bidden or unbidden, God is present.

Your library is your paradise.

From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.