The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

You can't be more horrific than life itself.

To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

States are great engines moving slowly.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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