There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

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

Time is the greatest innovator.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.