To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

To know truly is to know by causes.