A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

Whatever you can, count.

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.