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

God loveth the clean.

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

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.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.