But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Time is the author of authors.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.