The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.