Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.