They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.