Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

God's first creature, which was light.

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.