Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.