It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

God's first creature, which was light.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.