Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.