By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

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

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.