The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.