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

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

In charity there is no excess.